Orcutt Community Park

This was a great place to stop for a family with kids and dogs if you are on a road trip. Just a couple of turns off of the 101.
*** Good dog park. We used the large dog section of the dog park. Not very wide, but long enough to throw a ball a good distance. Around midday on a Saturday, here was a high of about a dozen dogs, and a low of two dogs. People seemed to know each other, but were friendly to strangers.
Fence around both large and small dog parks is SUPER low. It might be as tall as 3′, but not any higher. Not the park for you if your dog is a jumper.
There is only one dog watering station. There is a fixed bowl below each faucet. The bowl has holes, I suppose so that dogs aren’t drinking each others’ slobber. However, if you have a dog like mine that really doesn’t like running water, it sucks. By the time I could coax my dog over, most of the water had drained. Bring your own bowl to fill and set aside. As you might have surmised, they also don’t have any big rubber dog pools to help cool off your pet.
So, three stars. If the water situation is improved and the fence were higher it would have gotten four stars.
**** Playground for kids was very nice. Good newer equipment. My kids enjoyed it. Four stars.

This is my favorite place to jog. If you start at the light poles when the sidewalk starts and go up the trail, up the steep incline, back around the hill and go the long way outside and around the trail it equals out to exactly 3 miles! Seriously, if you want to know the route — message me and I’ll meet you and walk/​jog it with you because this route that I take is $$.
The view from the top of the hill is beautiful and I love it because the only way to get that view is to conquer the incline from HELL. There are two parks, one for small dogs and one for big dogs. The parks are well maintained and usually occupied and it doesn’t give any weird vibes. Parking is never an issue.
PRO-​TIP
Make sure to wave or at the least acknowledge people when you pass them on the trail… it doesn’t have to be awkward PEOPLE.

After spending 4 hours in the car with our toddler twins they were ready to run around and play! We found Orcutt Community Park via Unilocal and made our way over. This well maintained and clean park is great for kids. There was a large party next to the play structure yet there was plenty of room for the general public to enjoy the park. Park was was easy and the playground was great!

Well maintained and in a great location on the southern edge of town.
PROS: the best thing about this park is it is kept clean by both the park ranger AND the majority of the folks that visit; athletic fields appear well groomed; walking track is free of pot holes and cracks; playground looks decent and the dog parks appear popular
CONS: occasionally out of doggy bags, which may explain why some of our citizens don’t pick-​up after ‘Ol Blue…
OCP is in a pretty setting at the base of the small hills of south Orcutt. Nice to have this gem in our community, and special kudos to the folks that maintain the park!
Cheers!
RS

Great park. Enclosed. Large dog and small dog sections.